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This book offers a collection of papers that, taken jointly, show the academic potential of English Studies - its most contemporary lines of investigation seen against the area's traditional concerns. The chapters illustrate a cross section of research in English literature, linguistics, language teaching and translation studies - disciplines traditionally pursued at Departments of English. They also show an expansion of the core philological lines of research into other areas of knowledge, such as semiotics or comparative and cognitive studies. The book thus makes a strong case that the philological ethos, reflected in the Polish translation of «English Studies» as filologia angielska, still constitutes a valuable academic formula.

English philology. --- English literature. --- English language.

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"The study of English literature, language, culture and creative writing is an important and dynamic enterprise. English: Shared Futures celebrates the discipline's intellectual strength, diversity and creativity, explores its futures in the nations of the UK and across the world, and brings together the huge scholarly, cultural and social energy of the biggest subject in the Arts and Humanities in Higher and in Secondary education: the most staff, the most students. It represents the synergies produced when practitioners and students from across the discipline come together, and aims to enable new understanding of the challenges that the discipline faces within schools and universities, the vital cultural and political role that English plays, and a renewed appreciation of the intellectual vitality and commitment of its scholars and students. Overall, it demonstrates the rich ecosystem of a subject crucial to social, cultural, and economic well-being, and offers ways in which its vitality can be ensured in the face of new challenges within and beyond the academy." -- Publisher's description

Engelse taalkunde --- Anglistik. --- English literature --- English philology --- Study and teaching. --- English language

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This book traces the development of the ideal of sincerity from its origins in Anglo-Saxon monasteries to its eventual currency in fifteenth-century familiar letters. Beginning by positioning sincerity as an ideology at the intersection of historical pragmatics and the history of emotions, the author demonstrates how changes in the relationship between outward expression and inward emotions changed English language and literature. While the early chapters reveal that the notion of sincerity was a Christian intervention previously absent from Germanic culture, the latter part of the book provides more focused studies of contrition and love. In doing so, the author argues that under the rubric of courtesy these idealized emotions influenced English in terms of its everyday pragmatics and literary style. This fascinating volume will be of broad interest to scholars of medieval language, literature and culture.

English literature --- English philology --- Sincerity in literature. --- English philology, Middle --- Middle English philology --- History and criticism. --- Linguistics. --- Literature, Modern. --- Pragmatics. --- British literature. --- Comparative linguistics. --- Historical Linguistics. --- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. --- Language and Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Comparative Linguistics. --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Historical linguistics --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Philosophy --- Historical linguistics. --- Philology. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- History